Should you attend one or more of these sometimes pricey content strategy and corporate messaging related conferences? Communicating with your audiences effectively is probably the most important thing you can do next to having a profitable business strategy.
Content, communications, messaging: whatever you call it, it influences all aspects of business, from attracting the right audience and helping them make a decision, to being considered the thought leader in your industry and closing a deal.
Education, connection, collaboration: it's all a part of the Magic Layer of content strategy, and you can find it at conferences.
So yes, it's definitely worth your time and expense to send your content strategists, marketers, sales people, writers and editors, even your C suite ... anyone who touches your brand message ... to one of these events.
SMX West, San Jose, CA
Traffic & Conversion Summit (marketing specific), San Diego, CA
South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin, TX
Writer's UA West, Denver, CO
An Event Apart, Seattle, WA
ContentTECH (formerly Intelligent Content Conference), San Diego, CA
NAB Show, Where Content Comes to Life, Las Vegas, NV
TED 2019, Vancouver, Canada
NAB Show, Where Content Comes to Life, Las Vegas, NV
Confab: Content Strategy Conference, Minneapolis, MN
AMA Art of Marketing, San Diego, CA
ACM CHI, Engage with CHI, Glasgow, UK
HOW Design Conference, Chicago, IL
99U Conference, New York, NY
TechComm Summit, Denver, CO
Write the Docs Portland, Portland, OR
SMX Advanced, Seattle, WA new
An Event Apart, Washington DC
Design/Content Conference, Vancouver, Canada
An Event Apart, Chicago, IL
Content Marketing World, Cleveland, OH
Inbound Marketing Summit, Boston, MA
LavaCon, Portland, ORAn Event Apart, Denver, CO
SMX East, New York, NY
An Event Apart, San Francisco, CA
AMA Art of Marketing, San Diego, CAIA Summit (Information Architecture)
Now What? Workshops, TBD
Skyward: Forward: Celebrating the Fusion of Story and Business, TBD
Writer's UA EastComnet19, The Communications Network, San Francisco, CA
Content Marketing University, Online Training
Content Strategy Meetups Around the World, USA
San Diego Content Strategy Meetup, San Diego, CA
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Shelly Bowen, MFA, is a content writer, content strategist, and founder of Pybop.
For decades, Shelly has written for businesses on complex topics from disease prevention and medical devices to alternative energy and leveraging data. Today, she's hyper-focused on supporting B-B technology businesses. In her spare time, she hikes, kayaks, draws, and works on her T-Bird.
A wide variety of brands rely on Shelly as an essential freelance writer and content strategy resource.
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